Guilty Plea in ‘Anonymous’ DDoS Scientology Attack

A Nebraska man is pleading guilty in federal court to a computer-disruption charge for his role in the 2008 distributed denial-of-service attack that temporarily shuttered Church of Scientology websites, the authorities said Tuesday.

“He took their websites down,” Assistant United States Attorney Erik M. Silber said in a brief telephone interview from Los Angeles. “Anonymous: I think one of their primary missions is to bring down the Church of Scientology.”